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Iker Gil

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Iker Gil is a founding partner at MAS Studio, editor in chief of the nonprofit MAS Context, and executive director of the SOM Foundation. Iker has edited or coedited several books including Radical Logic: On the Work of Ensamble Studio and Shanghai Transforming. He has curated multiple exhibitions including Nocturnal Landscapes, Poured Architecture: Sergio Prego on Miguel Fisac, and BOLD: Alternative Scenarios for Chicago, part of the inaugural Chicago Architecture Biennial. He was Associate Curator of the US Pavilion for the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale and cocurator of Exhibit Columbus 2020–2021. He was the 2024 Morgenstern Visiting Chairs at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) and has taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), and the Escola da Cidade (São Paulo).

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Chronology

Chronology by Iker Gil

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Interview

The Super Roof Turns 50

Iker Gil and William Baker interview Rudolph Bergermann and Knut Göppert

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Interview

G. E. Kidder Smith Builds

Iker Gil interviews Neil Donnelly, Angelo Maggi, Andrea Nalesso, Michelangelo Sabatino, and Siiri Tännler

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Interview

On the Origins of High Water

Iker Gil and Mimi Zeiger interview Virginia Hanusik

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Interview

Building the Symbol of a Remarkable Transformation

Iker Gil interviews John Zils

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Interview

From the Mississippi Watershed

Iker Gil interviews David Schalliol

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Photo Essay

Eibar, the Factory City

Essay Luis Ulacia and photography by José Ronco with an introduction by Iker Gil

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Interview

Setting Up New Relationships Between City and Nature

Iker Gil interviews Diana Balmori

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Essay

John Moutoussamy at 100

Essay by Iker Gil

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Essay

This is not the Huarte House

Essay by Patxi Eguiluz and Carlos Copertone

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Remembrance

Helmut Jahn (1940-2021)

Remembering architect Helmut Jahn and his work

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Interview

A City in Film

Iker Gil interviews Koldo Serra

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Essay

A Place in Transition

Essay by Iker Gil with photography by Aitor Ortiz

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Essay

A Total Work of Art: The Salime Hydroelectric Power Plant

Essay by Patxi Eguiluz and Carlos Copertone

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Article

A Dialog of Difference: Reflections on Bruce Goff’s Ford House

Texts by Petra Bachmaier, Leo Berk, Assaf Evron, Grant Gibson, Sidney K. Robinson, David Skidmore, and Mary Woolever

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Introduction

A Retroactive Introduction

Issue statement by Iker Gil, editor in chief of MAS Context